You could read it that way. You could also read it as a message to the Israeli voters that if they don't choose Bibi, they'll have to deal with Iran on their own. It's not like Iran's aggressiveness towards Israel was specific to Bibi being in power.
You prefer solar+wind to nuclear. Fair, that's you prerogative. Just say that then, instead of baselessly implying that the finances are somehow fraudulent.
Your CBO link has nothing to do with DOE loans or guarantees. Irrelevant.
The GAO document merely indicates that the DOE is not on track to make as many loans as Congress has authorized (not required.) Does not indicate the loans are bad or at risk of default.
The energy.gov document says: "Given the LPO’s reliance on contractors and third-party advisors, we initiated this audit to determine whether the LPO had an effective framework in place for managing conflicts of interest for contractors providing support and advisory services to its Office." It does not indicate that the loans are bad or at risk, but simply points out that there may be conflicts of interest. There always are, so that's a nothingburger.
I have offered no "benefit of the doubt." I stated the normal terms and results of a loan. Full stop. If you are aware of documented shortcomings of the agreement, by all means please link them here.
All good questions. Get back to me when you've "looked into the details." Until then, I believe the U.S. is desperately short of electrical supply and should be doing things to remedy that.
Which is pretty funny, since the only major difference between the two these days is "Is Google spying on you, or is Microsoft?"
This is the relevant point. If you're using Microsoft OS, you know they are collecting telemetry from you (unless you block it at firewall or similar.) Google is also collecting telemetry via Chrome for sure. I use both Chrome and Edge on a daily basis for varying reasons not limited to every once in a while I find an interface that only works properly in one or the other (looking at you Synology DSM.) Both work just fine with no notice-able performance difference. But if limiting the exposure of my data/telemetry were my primary concern, I think I'd choose Edge simply because the only one browser company is collecting my data. Nevermind that every website you visit collects their own regardless of browser choice.
The horror. Imagine if Finder on MacOS searched both local and iCloud files!
The Department of Energy is lending as much as $4.4 billion to restart
Edwin Lyman, at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the taxpayer money being used should go toward addressing safety risks.
The U.S. Taxpayer is not funding any of this. The Federal money is in the form of a loan. Presuming that loan is repaid, the taxpayer should actually make some money back on the investment.
Also, presumably, safety regulations must be adhered to. I know the current state of regulation is debate-able, but it's not non-existent. The argument of who will pay for decommissioning is a moot point...those funds have already been allocated, but I expect the Hyper-scalers behind these rejuvenations would pony up if required (I think they should be required.)
Maybe the RAM crunch will make optimizing resource utilization cool again?
When there is a questionable situation, the very first thing you should do is "scramble" assets. If you need them to take action, they need to be in position to do so. This sort of "scramble" happens all the time, we just don't hear about it because the dreaded AI wasn't involved. Never heard of fighters being scrambled to intercept Russian bombers near Alaskan airspace? Happens almost monthly and has for decades.
But, they weren't relying on it. The command structure checked and double-checked and determined their information was flawed. So the whole thing got called off, as it should have been. The system worked...why is this a story?
Oh yeah, "but we almost caused WWIII" or some click-bait nonsense. We did not, the idea that China would retaliate with Nukes even if we had confiscated said ship is nonsense, and didn't happen anyway.
Stop with the sensationalist B.S.
"No one thinks self-regulation is enough," he said.
That's definitely not true Bill. You may think that, and you may be right, but there are definitely others who disagree.
Or just choking all compute and bandwidth with unanticipated load. Unintentional, non-malicious even, but a global DoS nonetheless.
But that was not your claim. You claimed "a majority of people", not a majority of a subset of people.
"And the distortion is not really in the electoral college itself. It is in the states that choose to allocate electors in a winner take all manner. It's a state base flaw not a constitutional flaw."
False. The electoral college is a "constitutional flaw" created to enable exactly this corruption. Without the electoral college, an undemocratic process of selecting electors would not exist, electors would not exist.
You are really bad a partisan lying.
If we're going to insist on accuracy, let's be accurate.
Only a "subset" of the people in the United States were eligible to vote at all. Your given number is around 244,000,000. Let's agree on your provided statistics for the purpose of discussion...they seem at least close. Theoretically all of those people could have registered and voted. According to your given stats, only about 2/3 of those registered, and of those only about 90% actually voted. So, it could be argues that somewhere approximately 90 million eligible voters weren't worried enough about Trump not being President to take the steps needed to cast their ballot. ~90,000,000 who didn't vote at all + ~77,000,000 who voted for Trump equals ~167,000,000 voters who either chose Trump to be President or didn't care if he was or wasn't. ~167,000,000 is a majority of the 244,000,000 million eligible voters.
So, using your own argument, I can determine that you can't do basic arithmetic.
What do "they" say it does that it doesn't do?
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this-- no dog exchanges bones with another. -- Adam Smith
